John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)

Will the Minister make a commitment today that there will not be any more cuts in welfare benefits, jobseeker's allowance, disability pensions and carers' allowances to ensure the less well off will be protected? In opposition, the Minister opposed all cuts to social welfare payments and advocated the protection of the less well off. Will she give a commitment to the hundreds of thousands who will not be able to afford breakfast in the morning and who will send their children to school without proper clothes, heating or food in their bellies that there will be no further cuts in social welfare?

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